Appeal No. 96-1247
Application 08/115,662
This is a decision on appeal from the final rejec-
tion of claims 1 through 4, 6 through 9, 13, 14 and 17. Claim
5 has
been objected to by the Examiner. Claims 10 through 12, 15,
16 and 18 have been cancelled. Thus, claims 1 through 9, 13,
14 and 17 are pending in the application.
This invention relates to clock feeding circuitry in
an integrated circuit and a method for adjusting clock skew in
such integrated circuits. On page 7 of the specification,
Appellant discloses that Figure 1 shows a semi-custom-made
LSI, using a clock feeding circuitry according to a preferred
embodiment of the invention. Appellant further discloses that
Figure 1 shows that the semi-custom-made LSI has a module
structure of logic circuits. The modules have user-designed
regions 130, 150 and 170. On pages 7 and 8 of the specifica-
tion, Appellant discloses that within each region the inter-
connections for feeding the clock signals to the logic cir-
cuits are provided so as to minimize the clock skew between
the logic circuits in the region. Appellant further discloses
that adjustable delay devices 152 and 172 are used to adjust
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